Influenza vaccines

April 20, 2007, 11:23 pm
Posted by stephen in General
My deltoid muscle hurts tonight.  I had my flu vaccine today ... and that's a fairly common minor side effect, but a sign that something's going on there.

The flu vaccine recommendations for the last few years are as follows:

2004/5 Northern hemisphere winter:
an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus
an A/Fujian/411/2002(H3N2)-like virus
a B/Shanghai/361/2002-like virus

2005 Southern hemisphere winter:
an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus
an A/Wellington/1/2004(H3N2)-like virus
a B/Shanghai/361/2002-like virus

2005/6 Northern hemisphere winter:
an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus
an A/California/7/2004(H3N2)-like virus
a B/Shanghai/361/2002-like virus

2006 Southern hemisphere winter:
an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus
an A/California/7/2004(H3N2)-like virus
a B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like virus

2006/7 Northern hemisphere winter:
A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like
A/California/7/2004(H3N2)-like
B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like

2007 Southern hemisphere winter:
A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like
A/Wisconsin/67/2005(H3N2)-like
B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like

Changes from season to season are in italics.

Note that the H1N1 part of the vaccine has remained the same.  It's H2N3 that changes regularly.
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Posted by  
on May 9, 2007, 11:24 am
oh thank gudness, that happened to u as well, i thort i was having a stroke or sumthing wen lehana gave me a flu vaccine shot.

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Posted by stephen  
on May 9, 2007, 11:59 am
Thort. The next time she gives you an injekshn, I'll tell her to file down the end of the needle first.

For people wanting to translate this gibberish, there is a translator available at http://www.transl8it.com/

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2814235.stm -

"When a 13-year-old Scottish girl handed in an essay written in text message shorthand, she explained to her flabbergasted teacher that it was easier than standard English.

She wrote: "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." (In translation: "My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It's a great place." ) "

I hope your thesis will be written in proper English.

Tsk tsk tsk. The children of today.

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